Dark Skin color confers resistance to this malady.
What is skin cancer
100
DNA is what kind of helix?
What is a nucleotide base
100
What was Darwin's first name?
What is Charles
100
The evolutionary mechanism proposed by Darwin
What is natural selection
100
Hindsight bias explains this phenomenon in which we observe things in the present day (like racial disparities in various sports teams) and assume, this.
That there is a causal reason for the observed differences.
200
Human skin color varies with the geographic distance from this line.
What is the equator
200
This base always bonds with cytosine in DNA
What is guanine
200
What was the name of the ship in which Darwin traveled the world?
What is The Beagle
200
The evolutionary mechanism caused by migration in or out of a population
What is gene flow
200
A man with sickle cell trait could have a child with sickle cell disease only if this were true
What is if the child's mother also had sickle cell trait.
300
Hypoxia is a concern for people living in this location.
What is high altitude.
300
Adenine and thymine are both this class of molecule
What is a nucleotide base
300
Darwin's famous book was published in this year.
What is 1859
300
The only evolutionary mechanism that can introduce new traits to a species
What is mutation
300
Shermer tells that in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, basketball was dominated by persons of this ethnic group.
What is people of jewish descent.
400
The name of the rule that states that humans and other animals are larger in colder climates
What is Bergmann's Rule
400
Human DNA is broken up into _______ segments called _________.
What are 46 and Chromosomes
400
Darwin's main contribution to evolutionary theory was this.
What is Natural selection
400
The evolutionary mechanism that operates only in very small or isolated populations
What is genetic drift
400
This number of bases codes for a single amino acid
What is 3
500
This bodily function is what you are trying to prevent if you have a low surface area to mass ratio (if you live in a cold climate)
What is evaporative cooling
500
If you are a fraternal (non-identical) twin, this is the amount of DNA that you share with your twin sibling.
What is 50%
500
To visit Darwin's grave, you would travel to Westminster Abbey, which is in this city.
What is London
500
The evolutionary mechanism that may be practiced by undergraduates when they decide who to ask out on a date.
What is sexual or mate selection
500
This is the intermediate substance that is necessary to translate the DNA code into a protein